What services can I run?
posted 13th June 2022
Here we explain what services you can run when you join our team and all the ways you can earn with Cook Stars.
There is a wealth of opportunity with Cook Stars, but the success of your franchise business will come down to you. The more you out in, the more you'll get out. It's quite simple really!
Although a franchise is a much easier route to starting a new business with a much higher success rate, you will still need to put the work in!
When you do this, you will be highly rewarded in terms of income, whilst enjoying yourself in the process!
As a Cook Stars franchisee, you will have an area/territory where you can exclusively run our services.
We have a variety of services that you can chose to run and can therefore benefit from multi-level income streams.
Minis and Juniors Classes
At our Mini's and Juniors Classes, the children receive all ingredients, equipment, craft activity, a snack, and a recipe card to take home.
You will receive 3 years worth of different term time recipes. These alternate between sweet and savoury weeks and are all very varied. The recipes range from cakes, biscuits, breads, pasta and rice dishes, pies, puddings, lunches, dinners and treats.
No week is the same for 3 years - this is excellent for keeping our little customers engaged. It also teaches them a range of skills and encourages them to explore a range of new foods.
For each recipe we have lots to help you! For instance, a lesson plan with hints and tips, a shopping and equipment list as well as a tutorial videos which shows you how to make each dish.
All our recipes are carefully costed to the gram / ml. We recommend a costed craft activity for each class too. The children take part in a craft whilst their food is cooking.
These sessions are typically run within the local community (eg. a village hall, community centres etc).
The fee for ongoing classes are paid by parents half termly in advance. We typically host up to 14 children in these classes.
(Age 2 -5)
Mini's Classes
Classes for pre-school age children plus a guardian. These classes are typically run during the school day.
*Junior's Classes* (Age 5 - 11)
Classes for primary school age children.
Parents are welcome to attend but this is not a requirement.
Many parents drop their children off and collect at the end.
These classes typically run after school and on the weekend.
*Academy Classes* (Age 11-17)
Aimed at older children and teens. These classes are the next step up and involve children cooking a huge range of full meals as well as puddings.
One week they might be making a coffee and walnut cake, and the next a curry from scratch along with home made naan or a beef pie with potatoes and vegetables.
These sessions typically run after school or on a weekend. We run these face to face as well as online.
Fees are paid half termly in advance with up to 10 in a class.
Workshops
You can offer 12 of our popular workshop types each year!
Valentines Day
Mother’s day
Easter
Father’s day
Summer Holidays x 6
Halloween
Christmas
We have 3 years-worth of different workshops so in total you will have 36 different workshops to run!
Our workshops are typically charged at £20-£25 per person. You may chose to run several of these workshops which many of the team opt to do!
Workshops are generally run in the school holiday and both our class customers as well as the general public attend.
Birthday Parties
We have 6 birthday party option:
-High Tea
-Little Italy
-Little Cookies
-Teddy Bears Picnic
-Cheesecake
-Experimenters party
It is worth checking out our website if you'd like to learn more about our parties and what we offer to our customers (it really is unique!).
We typically charge £225+ for the first 8 people and £15 per child thereafter.
Many of our team run sessions at public and private schools. These sessions are always popular as they are easily accessible to children.
There is great opportunity to run after school classes, support specific school projects and also work with schools who receive funding.
As you put the word out there about what you do, it is typical that you will get approached to run all sorts of different events!
Here are some of the projects we have been involved with. Some of these are one off and some are repeat sessions.
The fee you will charge for these varies but often they are bespoke projects and our team typically charge between £150 -£500 per session.
You can sell starter packs to your customers as well as our other items such as our range of cookie bags / cooking kits, journals. These can be provided at your classes as well as at events (such as fayres / festival) within your area.
I hope this helps give a good overview of what you can offer customers and what you can charge. All our prices are adjustable to ensure they work within your area but I hope this gives you a guide at this stage.
Please let us know if you have any questions and we'll be happy to help.